What to Stream: November 13–19, 2026
Jessica Chastain's Nashville thriller, Apple's 86% disability-rights drama and a 97% Brazilian film lead the November 13–19 arrivals on Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+ and Hulu, each with current Rotten Tomatoes figures and a verdict.
Friday, November 13 is the heaviest day of this week by a distance. More than a dozen new titles arrive across the four services that day, including Netflix's Jessica Chastain thriller and three HBO Originals. The following Wednesday and Thursday bring a second wave, led by Léa Seydoux's Gentle Monster and Netflix's eight-part FTX drama The Altruists.
The best-reviewed title of the week is Apple TV+'s Being Heumann: 86% from 80 reviews for Siân Heder's film about Judy Heumann and the 1977 occupation of a federal building. The biggest swing is Heartland, which puts Chastain in a cowboy hat and Nashville neon with no critic score yet.
This covers US arrivals from November 13 through November 19, 2026. Rotten Tomatoes figures are a live snapshot read on November 12. Where a row says "no Tomatometer yet," no percentage had been posted at that moment.
The week at a glance
| Title | Service and date | Format, genre and time commitment | Rotten Tomatoes | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland | Netflix, Nov. 13 | Mystery thriller film; 1h 54m; R | No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews) 1 | Watch It for Chastain |
| The Altruists | Netflix, Nov. 19 | Drama limited series; 8 episodes, all at once; TV-MA | No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews) 2 | Watch It |
| Gentle Monster | Netflix, Nov. 18 | Psychological thriller film; 1h 54m; German | 70% critics (69 reviews); audience sample under 50 ratings 3 | Watch It |
| Guarding Stars | Netflix, Nov. 18 | Romantic comedy film; 1h 47m | No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews, 0 ratings) 4 | Skip It unless you want the formula |
| Silent Night | HBO Max, Nov. 13 | True-crime drama miniseries; 6 episodes, weekly; Polish 5 | No Tomatometer yet | Watch It for true-crime viewers |
| Clangold | HBO Max, Nov. 13 | True-crime docuseries; 4 parts; German | No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews) 6 | Watch It for heist-documentary viewers |
| Maniacs of the Truth | HBO Max, Nov. 13 | True-crime docuseries; 2 parts; Hungarian | No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews) 7 | Watch It for true-crime viewers |
| When a Witness Recants | HBO Max, Nov. 17 | Documentary film; 1h 52m | 100% critics (14 reviews); no audience score 8 | Watch It |
| Being Heumann | Apple TV+, Nov. 13 | Drama film; 2h 7m; R | 86% critics (80 reviews); audience sample under 50 ratings 9 | Watch It |
| 12 12 12 | Apple TV+, Nov. 13 | Heist drama series; 8 episodes, two at launch then weekly; TV-MA | 56% critics (9 reviews); no audience score 10 | Skip It unless the cast is the draw |
| The Baltimorons | Hulu, Nov. 13 | Comedy film; 1h 39m | 93% critics (75 reviews); 84% audience (50+ verified) 11 | Watch It |
| I'm Still Here | Hulu, Nov. 17 | Drama film; 2h 15m; PG-13 | 97% critics (205 reviews); 97% audience (500+ verified) 12 | Watch It |
Content ratings appear where the platform or Rotten Tomatoes publishes one; several of the newer arrivals have none yet. Hulu has no original premiering in this window, so its two entries are films new to the service.
Netflix: Chastain in Nashville, FTX in eight parts
Netflix's week runs from Friday to the following Thursday: Heartland opens it, Gentle Monster and Guarding Stars land on Wednesday, and The Altruists closes it.
Heartland — November 13
Misty Jones was a country music star before she walked away from the stage. She comes back to Nashville when her niece, a rising singer, disappears, and the search takes her through the parts of the business that made her famous. 1
Jessica Chastain plays Misty. Garrett Hedlund plays Roy Combs, Carter Faith plays Charlie Heart, and Ross Lynch, Jennifer Nettles and John Hawkes are in the cast. 1314
Shana Feste wrote and directed the film. It runs 1 hour 54 minutes and is rated R. 14
Jessica Chastain as Misty Jones in Heartland, which reaches Netflix on November 13. Image: Netflix.
Rotten Tomatoes had posted no critic score by November 12: 0 reviews and 0 audience ratings. 1
Verdict: Watch It for Chastain and the Nashville setting. This is a premise-and-cast recommendation, and the missing score is the risk: a country-noir thriller can go wrong in ways a trailer hides.
The Altruists — November 19
Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison built FTX into one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. The series follows them from idealistic newcomers to the collapse that ended with accusations of stealing $8 billion, and it treats the fraud as a romance that curdled. 15
Julia Garner plays Ellison and Anthony Boyle plays Bankman-Fried. The cast also includes Alex Lawther, Matt Rife, Karan Soni, Robin Weigert, Paul Reiser, Jennifer Grey and Terry Chen as Changpeng Zhao. 1516
Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt are co-showrunners and co-writers, and James Ponsoldt directed the first episode. All eight episodes arrive on November 19; the series is rated TV-MA. 15
Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried in The Altruists, out November 19. Image: Netflix.
Rotten Tomatoes had no critic score at the snapshot: 0 reviews. 2
Verdict: Watch It. Eight episodes is one weekend, the real case supplies the ending, and the two leads are the reason to start. The absence of reviews means the execution is unknown.
Gentle Monster — November 18
Lucy is a concert pianist who has moved her family to a country house so her husband can recover from burnout. An early-morning police visit ends that plan: her husband is accused of a crime the film keeps half-hidden, and Lucy has to protect her son while deciding what she believes. 3
Léa Seydoux plays Lucy, with Laurence Rupp, Jella Haase and Catherine Deneuve in support. The film is in German, runs 1 hour 54 minutes, and opened in limited US theaters on October 30 before this Netflix date. 3
Rotten Tomatoes records 70% from 69 reviews. The audience sample is still under 50 ratings, so no percentage is posted. 3
Verdict: Watch It. Sixty-nine reviews is a usable base, and the split — seven in ten critics positive — fits a thriller built on ambiguity. The audience number has not formed yet.
Guarding Stars — November 18
A small, exacting executive-protection agent is hired to guard a famous action star from a stalker. To stay close to him, she poses as his girlfriend on a Christmas trip to his family's Montana ranch. 17
Leighton Meester plays the agent and Jared Padalecki plays the star. The film adapts Katherine Center's novel The Bodyguard, runs 1 hour 47 minutes, and had no content rating listed at the snapshot. 417
Rotten Tomatoes had 0 reviews and 0 audience ratings. 4
Verdict: Skip It unless you want the formula. The premise is the bodyguard romance played straight, and there is no evidence yet that this version does anything with it.
HBO Max: three originals on one Friday, two documentaries after
HBO Max puts three European originals on November 13, then adds two documentaries the following week. None of the Friday three carries a critic score.
Silent Night — November 13
On Christmas Eve in 1976, a pregnant woman, her husband and his younger brother were killed on their way back from Midnight Mass. Thirty passengers on the bus stayed silent, and the deaths were recorded as a traffic accident. 5
The series follows the dead woman's mother, Zdzisława Kaleta, and a young investigator, Henryk Maczek, as they push against a case everyone wants closed. It is adapted from Wiesław Łuka's reportage about the Połaniec killings. 5
Łukasz Simlat plays Lech Wojda, Jędrzej Hycnar plays Maczek and Magdalena Biegańska plays Kaleta. Jan Holoubek directed, Maciej Kowalewski wrote the episodes, and the series is in Polish. 5
Six episodes roll out weekly from November 13 to December 18. 5
Verdict: Watch It for true-crime viewers. The case is specific, the witnesses are the mystery, and six weeks is a manageable commitment. No critic score had been posted.
Clangold — November 13
In March 2017, someone took a 100-kilogram gold coin from Berlin's Bode Museum. The coin was called the "Big Maple Leaf," and the investigation led into the city's clan-organized underworld. 18
The four-part German docuseries reconstructs the theft, the manhunt and the trial. Jan Zabeil directed it for beetz brothers film production. 18
Rotten Tomatoes had 0 reviews and no audience score. 6
Verdict: Watch It for heist-documentary viewers. Four parts, one stolen object and a courtroom finish.
Maniacs of the Truth — November 13
HBO's first Hungarian true-crime original gathers retired detectives in a Budapest office to reopen the cases that stayed with them. The two parts cover the 1991 kidnapping of 18-year-old Helga Farkas and murders linked to the hitman Magda Marinko, moving from the last years of state socialism into the post-1989 transition. 19
Retired detective Ernő Tóth hosts, with István Krispán, János Kőrösi, Lajos Kovács and Attila Petőfi, plus crime journalist László Illisz. Adél Szajki-Vörös and Péter Szajki developed it with HBO over three years. 19
Rotten Tomatoes had 0 reviews. 7
Verdict: Watch It for true-crime viewers. Two parts is one evening, and the detectives' own memories carry the account.
When a Witness Recants — November 17
In 1983, a 14-year-old boy was murdered in a hallway at Harlem Park Junior High School in Baltimore. Three local teenagers were arrested, convicted and sentenced to life; all three were innocent, and they served 36 years before the case came apart. 8
Dawn Porter directed the documentary, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who revisits a case from his own youth, joins her to trace the witnesses who recanted decades later. It runs 1 hour 52 minutes and opened in limited theaters on October 30. 820
Rotten Tomatoes records 100% from 14 reviews. No audience score is posted. 8
Verdict: Watch It. Fourteen reviews is a small sample, and every one of them is positive. For a documentary about a wrongful conviction, that is a clearer signal than most of this week's premieres offer.
Apple TV+: the week's best-reviewed film, and a heist series
Apple TV+ has three premieres on Friday, November 13: a feature film, an eight-part heist drama and a Peanuts holiday special.
Being Heumann — November 13
In 1977, Judy Heumann and a coalition of disabled activists occupied federal offices to force a bureaucrat into action on disability rights. The occupation became the longest of a federal building in American history. 21
Ruth Madeley plays Heumann. Mark Ruffalo plays the bureaucrat standing between the protesters and the regulations, and Siân Heder, who directed CODA, directed the film from a screenplay based on true events. 21
The drama runs 2 hours 7 minutes and is rated R. It opened in limited theaters on November 6 and reaches Apple TV+ on November 13. 9
Rotten Tomatoes records 86% from 80 reviews, the largest critic sample among the week's new releases. The audience sample is still under 50 ratings, so no percentage is posted. 9
Verdict: Watch It. Eighty reviews at 86% is the firmest evidence in this guide. The film is a drama about a political fight, and the theatrical run means the reviews are already in.
12 12 12 — November 13
A disgraced FBI agent and a career criminal chase each other across Europe toward a raid on a bank vault under Zurich. The series tells the story on three clocks: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist and the 12 days afterward. 22
Anthony Mackie plays the agent and Jamie Dornan plays the criminal; both executive produce. Jack Kesy, Agathe Rousselle, Sallie Harmsen, José Garcia and Kali Reis are in the cast. Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble created it. 1022
The series runs eight episodes, rated TV-MA. Two arrive on November 13, then one every Friday through December 25. 22
Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in 12 12 12, which premieres on Apple TV+ on November 13. Image: Apple.
Rotten Tomatoes records 56% from 9 reviews. No audience score is posted. 10
Verdict: Skip It unless the cast is the draw. Nine reviews is thin, and a majority of them are negative; the weekly rollout also asks for seven more Fridays after the first.
Hulu: no originals, two films worth the slot
Hulu's November schedule has no original premiering in this window. The arrivals are films and series new to the service, and two of them are stronger than most of the week's premieres.
The Baltimorons — November 13
On Christmas Eve in Baltimore, Cliff — six months sober — chips a tooth and ends up in the care of Didi, a dentist working late. His car gets towed, she offers him a ride, and the two spend the night drifting through the city together. 1123
Michael Strassner plays Cliff and Liz Larsen plays Didi, with Olivia Luccardi as Brittany. Jay Duplass directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Strassner. The film runs 1 hour 39 minutes. 11
It played theaters in September 2025 and has been streaming since October 2025, so the Hulu date is a new streaming window. 1124
Rotten Tomatoes records 93% from 75 reviews and 84% from more than 50 verified ratings. 11
Verdict: Watch It. Both samples are healthy and both point the same way, which is rare in this guide. At 99 minutes it is the shortest film among the week's featured titles.
I'm Still Here — November 17
Brazil, 1971. Eunice Paiva's husband, a former congressman, is taken by the military dictatorship, and she spends the rest of her life searching for him while raising five children. 12
Fernanda Torres plays Eunice, and Walter Salles directed. The drama runs 2 hours 15 minutes and is rated PG-13. It opened in US theaters in February 2025 and streamed two months later; Hulu adds it on November 17. 12
Rotten Tomatoes records 97% from 205 reviews and 97% from more than 500 verified ratings. 12
Verdict: Watch It. Two large samples, five points apart at the top of the scale. This is the best-documented film in the guide and the longest commitment among Hulu's arrivals.
Also new this week
- Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy (Apple TV+, Nov. 13) — Snoopy lands on Santa's naughty list and has 12 days to prove he is a good beagle. Rated TV-G; no Tomatometer yet (0 reviews). Watch It for the family slot. 2526
- The Hotline (HBO Max, Nov. 18) — a 36-minute documentary about Never Use Alone, a helpline where volunteers stay on the line with people using opioids and call EMS if they stop responding. Directed by Ricki Stern and Jesse Sweet. No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews). Watch It if the subject is one you want to sit with. 2027
- Murder in Galicia (Netflix, Nov. 13) — a Spanish crime drama, inspired by true events, in which a sergeant suspects a woman's husband after a night-time attack. No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews). Watch It for the procedural. 1728
- Valentina and the 12 Signs (Netflix, Nov. 18) — a Brazilian romantic comedy in which Valentina dates one man from every zodiac sign after a breakup. No Tomatometer yet. Watch It for the premise. 17
- The Law of Beasts (Netflix, Nov. 18) — a Polish crime drama about a convicted child murderer's approaching release and the investigator and psychiatrist still divided over the case. No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews). Watch It for the moral argument. 1729
- Mike Ward: Modest (Netflix, Nov. 17) — a stand-up special from the French-Canadian comic, on dating after divorce and living by impulse. No Tomatometer yet (0 reviews). Watch It if you already follow him. 1730
- Paddington in Peru (Hulu, Nov. 15) — Paddington and the Brown family search the Amazon for his missing aunt. 1h 46m; 93% critics (193 reviews) and 90% audience (1,000+). Watch It for the family slot. 31
- Gift (HBO Max, Nov. 14) and Madame Web (HBO Max, Nov. 14) — HBO Max has published no synopsis, cast or episode count for Gift; Madame Web is a library arrival. 20
The licensed titles are a separate list. Netflix adds Insidious and Smile on November 15, Black Butler seasons 1 and 2 and new One Piece episodes on November 15, RBG and Run the World on November 17, and Obsession on November 17. Hulu adds Call of the Night season 2 and a batch of anime on November 15. 1724
References
- 1Rotten Tomatoes — Heartland\
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- 2Rotten Tomatoes — The Altruists\
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- 3Rotten Tomatoes — Gentle Monster\
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- 4Rotten Tomatoes — Guarding Stars\
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- 6Rotten Tomatoes — Clangold\
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- 7Rotten Tomatoes — Maniacs of the Truth\
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- 8Rotten Tomatoes — When a Witness Recants\
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- 9Rotten Tomatoes — Being Heumann\
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- 10Rotten Tomatoes — 12 12 12\
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- 11Rotten Tomatoes — The Baltimorons\
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- 12Rotten Tomatoes — I'm Still Here\
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- 13Netflix — Heartland
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- 14Netflix Tudum — Heartland
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- 15Netflix Tudum — The Altruists
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- 16Netflix — The Altruists
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- 17What's on Netflix — What's coming to Netflix in November 2026
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- 18Warner Bros. Discovery Deutschland — Clangold
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- 19Budapest Reporter — HBO's first Hungarian true-crime original
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- 20Warner Bros. Discovery — What's New on HBO Max This November
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- 21Apple TV Press — Being Heumann
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- 22Apple TV Press — 12 12 12 first look
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- 23Wikipedia — The Baltimorons
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- 24Hulu Press — November 2026 schedule
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- 25Rotten Tomatoes — Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy
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- 27Rotten Tomatoes — The Hotline
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- 28Rotten Tomatoes — Murder in Galicia
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- 29Rotten Tomatoes — The Law of Beasts
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- 30Rotten Tomatoes — Mike Ward: Modest
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- 31Rotten Tomatoes — Paddington in Peru
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